John McCain

President Obama inserted himself deeply into the election season from this remote locale on Monday, blasting the political rhetoric of Republican presidential candidates and what he called a culture of “outrageous attacks” tolerated by the GOP. He singled out the weekend charge from White House hopeful and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who said that through the proposed international nuclear deal with Iran, Obama “will take the Israelis and basically march them to the door of the oven.” The president called Huckabee's stark comparison to the Holocaust “part of a general pattern that would be considered ridiculous if it weren't so sad. ...

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